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Can Managers ask questions?
You can sometimes hear people complain about their Managers asking too much questions. It somehow seems to them that as Managers are supposed to be experts on what’s going on in the department, they...
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Your own PM style: Do You Have It?
How did we come to know what we know? Obviously, our first answer would be that we learned things in schools and universities and later acquired some practical experience in the job market. After that,...
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Lessons Learned: How to Deal with Failure
A few weeks ago a friend sent me an amazing piece of memorabilia – a journal article from the year 1905. It made such an impression on me that I immediately decided to share its wisdom on the ever...
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An Eternal Argument: Can a Non-Expert manage Experts?
Can you put a non-engineer to lead an IT development team? How effective would be a financial product development team when managed by someone who has no previous experience with financial systems?...
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When to delegate and when to do it yourself
Delegation is such an integrative part of Management that it seems everything has already been said about it. We all understand its benefits for grooming potential Leads and know how to redistribute...
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More on Delegation: Micro-management and “Hands-On” Management Style
After talking to people about my post on Delegation I decided to expand the discussion to other related issues in Management that everybody knows about, but the general understanding remains vague,...
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“Can a Non-Expert manage Experts?”– From Ask Anya mails
Following post : An Eternal Argument: Can a non-Expert manage Experts? “I read your post carefully and I have to say that I completely disagree. In my experience, any attempt to manage IT developers...
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A Happy New Year present for my readers: my Top 5 Favorite Movies for Managers
As Season Greetings are almost upon us and Anyworksmart will traditionally go into well-deserved recess for the next month, I decided to finish the year with something light yet meaningful in order to...
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Judging people: External vs. Internal
Happy New Year, everybody! AnyaWorkSmart is back online and will continue with discussion of every aspect of Management that can be improved by fighting Biases. I decided that the first post of the...
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The Science of Management: does it really help us?
Last week I’ve been talking to a friend who was just editing the final exam for his course “Decision-making in Disaster management”. Living aside the nice feeling of talking to people from the academic...
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